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out of hand? reince priebus thinks so. he's here to talk about how they plan to take more control. >> let's get to my first reads of the morning. in washington in less than an hour, v.a. secretary eric shinseki will testify before the veterans affair committee to answer questions about a coverup of falsified records around the country. in himself opening statement he will say "we can and we must do better. i am personally angered and saddened by any adverse consequence that a veteran might experience while in or as a result of our care." whistleblowers have leveled allegations about hidden wait times at six different facilities. veterans and their families saying in some cases they waited for months to get care. >> i could not get through.

i could not get a line. >> you was never really seen. >> six months to three months to four months. that gives me ten months out that i can't see a doctor. >> president obama assigned rob nabors to head a review of scheduling. something i've been asking the administration about for weeks. they were quick to respond on their health care problem. why did it take so long to respond in this instance? the original veterans administration was established by president hoofer in 1930 to provide medical services, insurance and pensions for the veterans of war war i. but the need for help skyrocketed after wa war war -- world war ii and again after vietnam. at the same time the annual budget was growing

exponentially. it doubled by 1995 and doubled again by 2006 before rising to $125 billion in 2012. back in the 80s, the push to make the v.a. its own department resulted in president reagan signing legislation to elevate the veterans administration to cabinet level status. it became the department of veterans affairs under george h.w. bush. but they've had poor practices and questionable medical practices and substandard care. and an investigation found at last eight veterans buried in the wrong places and disability claims were back logged for four

months or more, a wait blamed on the agency's decade-old manual tracking system. that made it difficult to treat soldiers who were moved overseas and then came back. and an effort to transfer the handwritten system failed and cost more than $1 billion. joining me now is the number two republican on the senate committee on veterans affairs, georgia's johnny isaacson. senator isaacson, good morning to you. let me start with what you want to hear from general shinseki this morning. we've already gotten a little preview of his testimony.

folks have read and seen some of that. what do you want to hear from him today that's going to make you feel confident that at least he's got his arms around this issue. >> well, i want to hear from secretary shinseki that there's acknowledgement in the v.a. that the v.a. has problems, we need the i.g.'s report but without that report there are problems. a you e-mail has emerged from april 26, 2010 specifically telling people not to game the system to improve their numbers. i toll the second on the phone yesterday i think we have a cultural problem in the v.a. and the secretary is misserved by the leadership. >> so you're happy to send a deputy in there to see what looks to me like some sort of

management or shifts to chang. >> as long as it's not just damage control. i want corrective action, not just covering the problem up. >> watching this vrchlt a. issue, it feels like a slow moving train wreck. we had the baby booming generation getting to an aej where health problem that anyone that gets to that age begins to get. we have the increase because of of the two wars. this seems like a crisis we all saw coming. did washington just not prepare for it? >> well, to the congress's credit, two or three years ago when we had these continuing resolution problems and the threat of government shutdown, we went into two year funding of the veterans administration health services to ensure veterans would never lose their coverage if there was a political problem in washington, d.c. so we were looking to the need to have funding for a longer period of time than

normal in the federal budget. i think the anticipation of how many coming in was known. we need to have a health delivery system that can deliver to the incoming 10 million people. >> why is there a separate v.a. health system? should we be integrating the v.a. into the regular health care system? is trying to keep a separate system actually causing more of a bureaucratic nightmare? >> you know, i personally think that it is and i have favored and have co-sponsored legislation that will give veterans the choice, they can go to the v.a. or go to the private sector for their services. i think that competition completing with private sector and allowing people to go to the

private sector might lesson the loads they have on them. you. >> say you spoke to secretary shinseki yesterday. are you calling for his resignation? do you think he should be a buck stops here situation or would you like to see him change the management structure around him and give him time to fix this? >> we need to fundamentally fix the problem. yelling for somebody's head today in anticipation of what the problem may be is not the way to approach it. but that may be the end result. but i want to get all the facts on the table, the american veterans deserve to know those facts and then we need to take action to see to it that leadership within the v.a. is strong and they don't tolerate any gaming of the system and our veterans are given the help they deserve. if that means the isn't has to go, let the facts roll out for themselves and we'll make the determination at another time. >> you are a co-sponsor on a piece of energy legislation that was a bipartisan bill, senator

jean shaheen, rob portman. there was a lot of politics. you voted against a bill you co-sponsored. why? >> no, i voted against cloture because no one was allowing -- we have the democratic leadership that doesn't want amendments to come to the floor and republican leadership want amendments. the clot yesh reflect the members' feelings about the procedures and the way it's being run. >> i hear you but do you realize how ridiculous that sounds to the public? wait a minute, you guys are casting votes -- >> know -- >> it sounds ridiculous to me. >> you're casting votes based on you don't like what's going on with management internally that may be in the best interest of

the public. >> it's in the best interest of the public to have a robust debate on issues. >> your state in georgia has a big primary day on tuesday. there's a robust republican primary in the u.s. senate to replace your colleague there, senator chambliss. are you comfortable with where this is headed? >> i trust the voters in the republican primary in georgia to make the right choicesweep will have a runoff and we'll ultimately have a mom knee. i'm confident the voters will choose the right person. >> have you already voted? >> i have already voted and i'm not about to tell you who i'm voted for. that's why we have secret ballot. >> fair enough. would you endorse in the reasonoff or are you going to stay out out of that?

>> i don't think it's my place to choose. i look forward to who the voters choose. >> we look forward to your testimony later this morning with regard to secretary shinseki. thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> in the wake of that botched execution in oak og and a last-minute stay in texas, we have new poll numbers out this morning about where america stands on the death penalty. the majority still for but where's the trend headed. >> but first, a look ahead, the president is set to speak at the 9/11 memorial. it will be a very solemn yet beautiful dedication this morning. you're watching "the daily

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back now with more "first read" and our new nbc news poll on how americans view capital punishment. the botched excuse in oklahoma has not changed the public view on the death penalty but over the past hundred years, it's clear support for the death penalty is slowly eroding. the death penalty opponents have a long way to go. 59% of registered voters favor the death penalty for the ultimate punishment for murder. this number is in line with surveys done in the last two years before clayton lockett's death in oklahoma but down considerably from the 90s, the three strikes and you're out era.

since 2007, six states have abolished the death penalty as more dna evidence has been used. although inmates remain on death row in connecticut, maryland and new mexico, they're not going to face the death penalty. now one in three people tell us if lethal injections are no longer viable, which is the issue here, there's drug shortages and they caused this problem with the botched execution in the first place, those people think executions should be stopped altogether. but 20% support the gas chamber. 18% support bringing back the electric chair, 12% would support a firing squad, another 8% with favor hanging. digging deep near the numbers, we see regional differs. just 48% the death penalty in

the northeast, 78% of republicans support the death penalty, 34 points higher than support for the death penalty among democrats, more than half of independence support it. support among men is higher. while 64% of whites favor the death penalty, 54% of african-americans oppose it. more than a third of those who in favor told us the strongest argument for the death penalty is that it's, quote, an appropriate consequence for someone convicted of murder. a similar poll of those who oppose it say the risk of killing someone who is wrongly convicted is the most powerful argument against the death penalty. and americans are split almost right down the middle on whether execution or life in prison is the worst punishment for a person convicted of murder. oklahoma didn't change things

but you can see there's been particularly, if you look at the last five years and 3 of the last 20 years is where the polling has dropped below 60% as far as overall favor being in favor of capital punishment. turning now to mid term politics, we'll check today's data bank number. it's 50, the number of voters who support john kasich's reelection bid. this is ohio, folks. double-digit leads are a big deal. kasich led fitzgerald by only 5. tells you something. an improving economy can help a governor's reelection. up ahead, a look at the massive expansion of people in political power in atlanta.

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its suburbs tipped colorado, northern virginia tipped the rest of virginia. keep in mind that although georgia hasn't backed a democrat since bill clinton, it was still relatively close in 2012. the key is the demographics, particularly in cities like atlanta and its suburbs. the number of hispanics doubles, and the number of african-americans grew by 26%. now look at the atlanta metro area, home to half the state's population. in fulton county, the number of african-americans was up nearly 12%, the number of hispanics jumped more than 50%. that's right, 5-0. the number of african-americans surpassed the number of whites

in fulton county. mayor kasim reed joins me now. is georgia going to be a swing state? 20 -- in 2016 and is it because of the growth in atlanta suburbs? >> i think it's going to be more than a swing state. i think hillary clinton will win in 2016 if she runs. >> why is that? >> we haven't had a major national campaign effort in the state of georgia. if you think of the kind of resources that were put in place in north carolina when the president and the part focused on north carolina, they invested between $15 million to $30 million in party building. we've got about 600,000

unregistered black voters in the state of georgia. about 300,000 to 150,000 unregistered hispanic voters. and i think if you have a national effort to win the state in 2016 that's funded at this appropriate levels by the national party and by the nominee of the party, if that's secretary clinton or vice president biden, then i think that the state will go democrat in 2016. >> let me ask you this. you've got some pretty competitive races in 2014. i've heard a lot of chatter that democrats are going to throw resources into georgia to try to deal with this registration issue. do you see evidence of it? >> we're starting to see that right now. but this registration issue will really tell the difference in the 2014 cycle. michelle nunn is running a terrific campaign. jason carter is running strongly in the state right now. but i don't believe that we can win unless we have a massive voter registration effort right up until the november cycle.

>> one of the ways -- if georgia does become a swing state, we talk about the demographic shifts, if it is moving in the direction of colorado and virginia, it also means there is going to be a substantial portion of -- in the colorado and virginia case it's white transplants, people that weren't native born to either colorado or virginia. californians with colorado and virginia frankly it's people up and down the east coast. georgia still strikes me as a pretty segregated state when it comes to voting, very polarized by race. how do democrats close that divide? >> because the metropolitan atlanta area is populated by people from all over the country with a lot of people moving to the metro area from new york and from california. the other statistics that is little known is the metro area has the second fastest growing foreign-born population in the united states of america right now.

and that's why i launched a welcoming cities initiative, to make sure that folks who are moving to the metro area and making us truly diverse are welcomed and who want to get involved in politics. so i think all of the underlying data shows that georgia is moving towards being a competitive state. we just need the national overall effort to turn the tide, and i believe that we can win with michelle nunn in 2014 and i believe we can win in 2016 for sure. >> let me ask you about -- by the way, you didn't mention jason carter in the governor's race. you focused on michelle nunn. do you think michelle nunn has a better chance than jason carter? >> i've always focused on michelle nunn. she's ahead of all of her opponent and tied with dade perdue. that was going to be my focus all along. i'm very concerned about democrats maintaining control of the united states senate so that's where i've been spending my time.

>> let me ask you about a policy issue. i've been doing this focus on georgia all week on the show and we were talking about this issue of water and this, frankly, fight. it involves the growth of the atlanta metro area and this issue of georgia's washington battles with the states of florida, alabama, tennessee. and within one of the things th surprised me is there is not a lot of reuse laws, forced reusing of water. what are you trying to do as mayor to try to deal with this water resource crisis that georgia is going to be dealing with in the near future? >> well, we're doing a number of this evenings. numb -- number of things. atlanta has cut water use over the past decade by 20%. we have moved forward with a number of sustainability measures. last week i announced we're going to be filling the quarry, a $70 million program to make

sure atlanta has the water supply. as you know, the governors from all of the states that you mentioned are the ones that are going to be addressing the larger water issue. but metro atlanta and the city of atlanta will have the water that it needs for today and in the future. >> what do you need from state government to deal with this to help you out here? >> we need for the governors to get a deal. governor nathan deal has been working on had hard. his predecessor, governor perdue did as well. it's tough when you have governors from three southern states that all have their own interests. so what i'm going to do is focus on my job. i'm going to go ahead and fill the bellwood quarry and reduce the water ousage in atlanta, which we have been doing for more than eight years, implementing sustainability efforts to ensure we have water at home. >> mayor kasim reed of atlanta, thanks for being on the show.

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in just a few minutes, president obama will join hundreds of family members of victims, survivors and first responders to dedicate and officially open the 9/11 museum and memorial in lower manhattan. this is a look as victims' families, survivors. it was below street level in the footprint of the fallen world trade center towers. it contains thousands of personal items and artifacts and nearly 2,000 oral histories. these are the killers from what i'm told, the real gut wrenchers, final voice mails

from victims to their loved ones. form are mayor michael bloomberg will introduce the president just after 10:00 a.m., governor cuomo governor christie, and former mayor giuliani will speak on the coverage of the dedication of the 9/11 memorial begins in a few minutes at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> you could argue that two major parties have lost control over the last two decades. but after multiple cycles, the republican national convention led by chairman reince priebus

has decided to retake control of the nominating process, including getting involved in the debate, to shrink the process as a whole that eventually did damage to mitt romney. iowa, new hampshire, south carolina and nevada, the primary is pushed back to february 2016. the party tries to do this until bill gardner in new hampshire steps in and threatening to penalize any other state that holds contests before march and mandating win-take-all prime is begin march 15th. and they want a convention in late june, wrapping up the entire thing early. and they want to form a new 13-member standing committee which will sanction a list of

approved presidential debates. the chairman will have a lot of power on this committee. the committee will oversee all details of debates, including the timing, frequency, format and media outlet. as the rnc rule states, anything and everything. the amendment bars any candidate who participate in an unsanctioned debate from future presidential debates. according to priebus, the plan is to limit the debates from 20 in 2012 to fewer than 12 in 2016. he wrote "we need more conservatives involved in the debate process, most importantly in the moderator's chair." it's easier to make these changes when no person controls the part and after a party has lost several elections in a row but not all are happy with this move.

nevada's die and orrock says "you're going to squelch the ability of candidates to get to know their voter base and i want to get to know the candidates. and, quote, do we want a committee of the national committee, which will surely be controlled by the national candidates picking which candidates participate in all presidential debates? kurt anderson, adviser to louisiana governor bobby jindal tweeted this, "america, we hear you so we're putting our political party bosses in charge of debates. if our candidates don't obey, we will silence them." newt gingrich saying "a lot of

republican rich people's complaints are silly. i would be very concerned if they try to strangle the ability -- i disagree totally with the absurd idea that the debates are harmful. >> let's talk about the criticism is the centralized process. let's go to newt's criticism. in many waps you sometimes criticize what you believe helped you. newt gingrich's campaign was helped by the debates and helped by the lengthened process. what do you say to this criticism that maybe there's too much centralized control? >> well, first of all, newt supports the rule so i think that article came out just before the rule was passed and he actually tweeted if you go back and look at his twitter handle, he supports the rule, he

supports the process and he's 100% on board with what we did in memphis, by the way. but i get your general question. it is about control. it's about whether we want the media or the grass roots of our part to control the process. it is about control. the only question is whether or not the republican party is going to take control or be the proper custodian of the nomination process. so there's a reason why the only way can you become the nominee of the republican party is if you have the majority of delegates on the floor of a national convention. there's no other way around it. the rules that govern that entire process is put together, voted on and discussed by the republican party and specifically the republican national committee. so this idea of centralized power, well, you have to have some methodology of choosing

candidates and i just happen to believe in a proper and i think dignified process, which we didn't have when you have 23 debates and all kinds of, i think, ridiculous scenarios that our candidate himself to deal with. >> let me ask you, though, about the enforcement procedure. you say it will ban candidates from other sanctioned -- if they go to an unsanctioned debate. let's play this out in reality. one candidate -- there's no such thing as a one candidate, unsanctioned debate. if the candidates on their own participate in an unsanctioned debate, four or five of them, the punishment is saying you can't participate in the next sanctioned debate, are you going to go after delegates at all? >> well, you know, look, as of now this is where the rule is. we've got another meeting in august and we've got a standing committee on rules that is going to be looking at this rule,

other potential additions to this rule that could come to light in august in our meeting in chicago. so, you know, the story is not over. but i believe that essentially we get about 90% of what we need on this rule, which is you start early, you work with your debate partners, you work with your media outlets, you start the process early, which, by the way, wasn't the case before either. there was a reason why it was a circus. there was no control over it. everyone was just doing their own thing. so we get a debate calendar together to start where everybody's on the same page and then the rule is, look, you can compete in our debates if you want to but if you go and compete in debates not on this list, then you're not going to compete in any debates on this list. >> so they're banned from all -- >> go ahead. >> they're banned from all -- all of them -- it wouldn't be just one. >> if you have one violation, you're done. >> okay. >> it's a one-time violation rule. >> and let me ask you this --

the other part of this is you can make an argument in 20 debates, i get that seems like a lot, it seems certainly monotonous for the front-runner. but at the same time you have the underdog candidates who need these debates. they need the oxygen. health insurance what kept rick santorum and newt gingrich alive. >> well, i think that's partly true. i think super pacs play a role. i think some of that stuff elongates the process. i think too long a proportional voting, as you led up into your -- it was a very good explanation as far as some of the problems that we face. but this is one of them. it's not the whole thing. look, i think that we have a responsibility to be the custodians of the process and i think having no role in any of these things and allowing the media to be in control of our process is not right for our party. and that's why out of 168 members, only seven people voted against it.

you know from filing both pl-- following both political parties, chuck, agreeing on what day it is can be a challenge. >> i hear you. let me ask you this, though. i've seen national parties try to take control of this process before, mostly on the primary calendar. and there's a one-man primary calendar destroyer in the state of new hampshire, bill gardner. both parties have tried to tell him when they want the new hampshire primary and every time he says uh-uh. what is your contingency plan? because the candidates at the end of the day, no matter what you tell them, they sit there and say, you know, i'm not going to skip iowa and new hampshire. >> well, i mean, that's why what we did differently this time around is that we put a rule in place that unlike the past when you had a state like florida that jumped the calendar that then caused new hampshire to jump and iowa to jump, you had an avalanche up front, these

states were only losing half their delegates. if you get a state like florida, if you have 110 delegates, you're sitting at 55 delegates. that's still a decent prize. they've moved out of that early window. north carolina moved out of the window because now under the rule, you go down to about six delegates. you become almost irrelevant as a state and i don't think a whole lot of candidates want to spend a ton of money and to go get a couple bits and crumbs out of these states, not to mention the fact that delegates get penalized and the parties do. and so i think just the penalties we put in place are so much more harsh than they've ever been in the past. believe me, this calendar issue, the first person that called me after we passed the primary calendar reforms was bill brock because he'd been fighting this since watergate to get control over this stuff. it's a long time coming. >> exactly. very quickly, the unintended consequence of your calendar and

your structure potentially is that whoever is the quick front-runner may be hard to stop. are you concerned about that unintended consequence, that a shortened process means you might not have as vetted of a front-runner as some in the party might wish that they had? >> well, we put two weeks of proportionality in the beginning of march, which we haven't -- remember, the rule beforehand that was changed in tampa had no proportionality. we actually added in two weeks of proportionality. so we squeezed both ends of the calendar but inserted two weeks of proportionality which was not there before. i think we found a good compromise on this and i think our voters and grass roots are very smart and they'll pick our best candidates as they normally do. >> well, it will be interesting to see. i have a feeling folks at the dnc are watching to see how successful you are at this. both national parties

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live look right now. this is capitol hill where the secretary of veterans affairs eric shinseki is about to testify before the senate veterans affairs committee. we expect some tough questions and bipartisan outrage and all of that starts at 10:00 a.m. time now for my takeaway. after keeping a lo profile on the national stage since the george washington bridge mess, new jersey governor chris christie is wrapping up his travel schedule and the chairman campaigned in maine last week and came to washington for a fiscal summit on wednesday where he was asked if the bridge con tros ve s verversy would impact possible presidential plans. >> as far as the impact on my political future i think it will have none because i didn't do

anything. i'm not the chief executive that they didn't know someone was on their staff that did something they didn't know of. i don't think it will hurt mine. >> are you thinking of running for president and when will you make a decision on that? >> yes and later. >> pretty deaf init tiff. >> we are haven't heard him be that definitive and his comments are particularly striking given recent developments on the past ten days on the bridge mess. last week "new york times" featured this ex-christie aide portrays a political office after rina was not the architect of the road closures. then there was michael drewniak that appeared to contradict christie's own timeline of knowledge investigating the scandal on wednesday. drewniak said he informed members of the governor's senior

staff in november that he had been told that the administration staffers were aware or involved in the controversial lane closures. past two weeks are any indicator it looks like this controversy will loom over christie for some time while he's in office and while he hopes it's a footnote as christie describes it, by the time he decides his intention for 2016 it will be a big mess for him right now in 2014. that's it for this edition of "the daily rundown." president obama is expected to speak in a few minutes at the new 9/11 memorial. chris jansing has a lot to cover over the next hour so stay with her. i'm meteorologist bill cairns. we are continuing to watch the fires in southern california.

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morning in lower manhattan. today the city will mark the dedication of the national 9/11 memorial museum. we'll hear from families of the victims, survivors of the towers. president obama will be among the speakers, as well. we'll also get a view inside the museum, all that coming up live in just minutes. but we begin with a critical hearing on capitol hill any moment now. va secretary eric shin successy will testify before the veterans affairs. he is personally angered by any adverse consequence that any veteran might experience while in or as a result of our care, and he will point to an independent investigation looking into allegations of cover-ups and secret wait lists. a whistle-blower in phoenix says that list may have led to 40 vets dying while waiting for are care. nbc's luke russert covers capitol hill and what do we expect to hear from eric shinseki today? >> eric